Along with
Perry Mason, this is probably my favorite classic TV. Alfred
Hitchcock Presents based itself in stories of suspense and mystery. Episodes
were often very creative with unexpected twists or revelations. In Season 2 (as
in much of the series) the 30 minute episodes were introduced and concluded by
Hitchcock himself frequently in a light humorous vein showing his dead-pan fun
side.

The series premiered on CBS on Sunday, October 2, 1955 in the 9:30-10:00 PM
timeslot opposite ABC's The Original Amateur Hour and NBC's
Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse. In its sixth season the show moved to NBC and was
shown on Tuesday 8:30-9:00 PM. When at NBC it preceded two other anthology shows
- Thriller and The Dick Powell Show.

Season 3 continued to boast performers who would later become much more
famous, some who already were, and many strong bit players in Universal camp
including - Vincent Price, William Shatner, Joseph Cotten, Jack Klugman, E.G.
Marshall, James Gregory, Peter Lorre, George Peppard, Michael Rennie, Jessica
Tandy, Pat Hitchcock and more. In 1962, Alfred Hitchcock Presents was expanded to one hour and was shown
under the title the The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. We anxiously await!, A
true gem of TV gone by.
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NOTE: This season has two episodes directed
by Robert Altman – Together (with Joseph Cotten) and The Young
One.

This represents more excellent value
for the money. 19+ hours of classic TV entertainment. This collection includes the
entire 39 episodes from Season 3 (1957 -58) on five single-sided,
dual-layered discs (packaging image above).

Just like
Season 2 and unlike Paramount's
Perry Mason (Season 1 / first half) these are transferred progressively
and have optional English subtitles. Thank you Universal!

There is niggling damage - usually in
the beginning of the episodes in the form of light scratches and dust.
It becomes rarely noticeable and never bothersome. Contrast is at
acceptable levels and detail, at times, is surprisingly strong. Audio is clean and clear
but inconsistent in volume levels from episode to episode. There are no
extras at all, which may be looking a gift-horse in the mouth if you
consider what you are getting for the price.

Like
Season 2 - a huge plus
is that these are the complete 25+ minute versions (syndicated
versions often have some removed.) It is nice
to have these on single-sided discs and 8 episodes per DVDs is perfect.
The 3-disc Season One package had a number of issues with the
compression, which thankfully has been further spread out in the Season
2 collection. I had a ball watching these and raced through them.out
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Season Season 3, Episode 1: The Glass Eye
Original Air Date: 6 October 1957
While cleaning out the apartment of his dead sister Julia, Jim
Whitely comes across a strange glass eye and tells to his wife the
story of how his sister acquired it. Julia had fallen in love with a
famous ventriloquist named Max Collodi. She had been to all his
performances and had sent letters requesting to meet him. One day,
Max agreed to meet her. She arrived to his hotel room and found him
sitting in darkness with his small dummy George. As they talked,
Julia tried to touch Max. She screamed as his body fell to the floor
and one of his glass eyes fell rolling on the carpet. George stood
up and angrily asked her to leave. It was Max who was the dummy and
George was the ventriloquist.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Mail Order Prophet
Original Air Date: 13 October 1957
One day, Ronald Grimes receives a letter from a Mr. Christianai who
says he can predict the future. The letter correctly predicts the
outcome of an upcoming election. More letters follow and through
gambling, Grimes acquires a large amount of money. A final letter
from Christianai asks for a contribution. Grimes gives it quite
willingly. Later Grimes finds out that Christiani was a fraud. He
was really a con man who sent out thousands of letters half of them
predicting one kind of outcome, and the other half predicting
another. Grimes was luck: he got the right predictions time after
time.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Perfect Crime
Original Air Date: 20 October 1957
An arrogant detective, Charles Courtney, prides himself on never
having committed a single mistake in his long and distinguished
career. He keeps a shelf of labeled mementos from each of his cases.
On the shelf there is an open space and a blank tag for what
Courtney calls "The Perfect Crime". One day a defense lawyer stuns
Courtney when he confronts him with evidence that the detective
helped convict an innocent man who has since been executed. Courtney
kills the lawyer, bakes him in a pottery kiln, and places the vase
in the open space on his shelf as a memento to his perfect crime.

Season 3, Episode 4: Heart of Gold
Original Air Date: 27 October 1957
Jackie Blake is released from prison after serving time for a bank
robbery. A friend from prison arranges for Jackie to stay with his
mother. Jackie does this and is accepted into the convict's family.
Gradually, his attitude toward life changes. He gets a job and is
quite content. Later, he learns that the family's hospitality was
merely a front and that they took him in only to find out where he
hid the stolen money from his bank job.

Season 3, Episode 5: Silent Witness
Original Air Date: 3 November 1957
Donald Mason is a married professor who wants to end a romance with
one of his students. He stops by while she is babysitting. He tries
to end the relationship, but she threatens to expose him. He kills
her and leaves a witness: the screaming baby she was watching.
Later, Mason runs into the infant in a carriage on the street. At
the sight of him the baby screams and cries. Haunted by the child's
screams, Mason gives himself up. Later, however, he discovers that
the baby has only been around women his entire life. It screams
whenever any man comes near.

Season 3, Episode 6: Reward to Finder
Original Air Date: 10 November 1957
John Gaminsky finds a wallet containing a lot of money. He sees an
ad in the paper asking for its return. His wife tells him to give
the wallet back, but John lies to her and tells her he already did
so. When she sees the ad again, she realizes he kept the cash for
himself. She gives him a choice: either let her shop at an expensive
store or she'll call the police. John opts for the former. When she
goes on a buying spree, however, he realizes there is not enough to
share. His wife comes to the same conclusion.

Season 3, Episode 7: Enough Rope for Two
Original Air Date: 17 November 1957
Joe Kedzie is released from prison after committing a robbery. Only
Joe knows where the money is hidden: at the bottom of a mine shaft
out in the desert. Maxie and Madge find Joe when he goes to retrieve
the money. He agrees to cut them in. Maxie gets greedy and Joe
shoots him. Unfortunately, he also puts a hole in their only
canteen. Joe lowers himself down the mineshaft with a rope to
retrieve the money. He ties the money to the rope and sends it up.
When he tries to climb out, Madge cuts the rope and he falls and
breaks his leg. Madge tries to get away, but discovers that Joe has
the keys to the truck.

Season 3, Episode 8: The Last Request
Original Air Date: 24 November 1957
Gerald Daniels is granted a last request on the eve of his
execution. He asks for a typewriter. He writes a letter to a
newspaper that recounts his criminal career. In the letter he
explains how he once murdered a waitress who was trying to blackmail
him, how the D.A. convicted her ex-husband of the crime, and how the
man had been executed. He writes that he, now, is in the same
position: he is going to be executed for a crime he did not commit.
Before his death, he wants to testify that the D.A. is not only a
sloppy prosecutor, but also a murderer.

Season 3, Episode 9: The Young One
Original Air Date: 1 December 1957
Janice is a beautiful 17 year old who longs to be free from the
influence of her guardian Aunt May. She also wants to get out of the
small town she's in. She asks her boyfriend Stan to marry her so
that they can run away. Since he doesn't have a job, he keeps
putting of the marriage. Janice do something herself. She meets a
man named Tex and lures him home for a drink. When she hears a car
outside she starts fighting with Tex. She rips her clothes and
knocks over furniture. A policeman who sees Janice with Tex enters
the house. Upon entering the house, he discovers Aunt May's body.
Janice tells the policeman that Tex killed her. The policeman
accepts the girl's story. Then, however, Stan arrives. Having gotten
a job he had come by the house to take Janice away. He found Aunt
May's body lying in the spot where Janice left it after pushing her
down the stairs.

Season 3, Episode 10: The Diplomatic Corpse
Original Air Date: 8 December 1957
Evan Wallace and his wife Janet take Janet's wealthy mother on an
sightseeing trip to Mexico. Janet's Mother suddenly dies in the back
seat of their car. They cover the body and stop at a café for a
soothing drink. When they return, they discover that the car has
been stolen. Since they need the body to claim their inheritance,
they hire a detective. The detective eventually finds the body at a
funeral home. He says he will ship the body to Los Angeles for a
small "fee". The Wallac'es agree and pay him. Upon arriving in Los
Angeles, a doctor pronounces the body dead but he notes that the
body is not that of a woman, but an old Mexican Man.

Season 3, Episode 11: The Deadly
Original Air Date: 15 December 1957
A plumber is blackmailing several suburban housewives. When he
confronts his latest victim, Margot Brenner, he runs into a dead
end. She catches onto his scam and uses his own method to bring him
to down.

Season 3, Episode 12: Miss Paisley's Cat
Original Air Date: 22 December 1957
Miss Paisley adopts a stray cat. She names him Stanley. Stanley
sneaks into the room of the violent tempered Mr. Rinditch. He tells
Miss Paisley to keep the cat out of his room, but she fails. The cat
sneaks into his apartment and Rinditch kills it. When Miss Paisley
finds out, she grabs a knife to kill Rinditch, but she has second
thoughts. She sits down and falls asleep. In the morning she wakes
up wearing different clothes. The knife is also missing. She
discovers that Rinditch has been stabbed to death and that a janitor
has been charged with the crime. She is convinced she is the
murderer but the police don't believe her. The janitor is later
convicted and executed. Miss Paisley then discovers Stanley's
collar. She remembers the murder. She did kill Rinditch and threw
her bloodstained clothes and knife into a river. She now does the
same thing with Stanley's collar so that no one can trace the crime
to her.

Season 3, Episode 13: Night of the Execution
Original Air Date: 29 December 1957
D.A. Warren Selvey learns that he's on bad political ground because
of his low conviction rate. He decides to vigorously prosecute a man
named Rodman. He wins the murder case and Rodman is sentenced to
die. After the sentence, however, Selvey meets a man named Barnes
who claims to have committed the crimes. Selvey is now being
considered a candidate for Congress. Fearing the repercussions of
having convicted an innocent man, Selvey frightens Barnes into
silence. The night Rodman is to be executed, Barnes shows up and
urges Selvey to call the governor. Selvey refuses and in an ensuing
struggle Barnes is killed. Selvey's political ambitions are ruined.
Days later Selvey learns that Barnes was a fake. He was a crazy
retired judge who would study the evidence of a case and then
confess to the crime.

Season 3, Episode 14: The Percentage
Original Air Date: 5 January 1958
Eddie Slovak meets an old Army buddy named Pete who once saved his
life. He intends to repay his friend. He offers him money for a
business, but Peter refuses. Eddie tries to talk to Pete's wife
Louise. Louise falls for Eddie and the two become romantically
involved. Eddie eventually kills her. Later he explains to Pete that
he did him a favor since she was cheating on him. Pete calls the
police and Eddie is arrested. Pete goes to see Eddie's girlfriend
and explains that their plan worked. Louise is dead and Eddie is out
of the way. Now, the two of them can be together.

Season 3, Episode 15: Together
Original Air Date: 12 January 1958
At an officer Christmas part Shelley calls Tony and tells him he
must get a divorce and marry her. She threatens to tell his wife
about her if he doesn't. After the party, Tony comes to Shelley's
office. When she threatens him again, he stabs her. He tries to
leave the office but discovers that the door is locked. He finds the
keys but uses the wrong one and jams the door. He tries other ways,
but they all fail. Eventually he hears some carolers outside on the
streets below. He writes a note and using the keys to weigh it down,
he drops it out a window. The keys prove too heavy and the note
sinks into the snow.

Season 3, Episode 16: Sylvia
Original Air Date: 19 January 1958
Sylvia is a young woman who is contemplating suicide. Her ex-husband
Peter married her for money. When her father discovered this, he
forced him to divorce her. Sylvia is in touch with Peter and wants
him back. Peter calls her father and tells him that he will stay out
of her life for a price. Sylvia's father tells her about his
blackmail scheme. She tells him that she bought a gun to use on
Peter if they did not get back together. She goes to her room alone
and his followed by her father who fears she might kill herself.
When he comes in, she shoots him saying that he never let her live
her own life.

Season 3, Episode 17: The Motive
Original Air Date: 26 January 1958
Tommy Greer is a crime buff who decides to commit a motiveless
murder in order to confuse the police. He selects his victim from a
phone book at random. He tracks him down and kills him but his
"perfect crime" is unraveled by modern crime-fighting techniques.

Season 3, Episode 18: Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty
Original Air Date: 2 February 1958
Millicent Bracegirdle is a sheltered old woman who decides to go to
Paris. Her visit does not turn out well when she accidentally enters
the wrong hotel room and gets locked inside with a notorious
murderer.

Season 3, Episode 19: The Equalizer
Original Air Date: 9 February 1958
Eldon Marsh is a physically weak man whose wife is stolen by a much
larger man, named Wayne Phillips. He sets about a revenge that
results in a rooftop confrontation with Wayne. The match seems
uneven, but Eldon has an equalizer: a gun.

Season 3, Episode 20: On the Nose
Original Air Date: 16 February 1958
Fran is a housewife addicted to gambling. Her bookie threatens to
tell her husband if she doesn't pay up a loan by five o'clock that
afternoon. She needs to raise 25 dollars fast. She manages to scrape
up five dollars and then tries to shoplift the rest. She is caught
by a store detective. As they drive off in his car the detective
listens to her story and offers her twenty dollars in exchange for a
little romance. She refuses and the car crashes. She flees the scene
of the accident but accidentally leaves her purse and the money. She
returns home and is surprised to have her purse returned by the
police. It now contains twenty dollars which they found in the car
and assumed was hers. She now has enough money to pay off the loan.
After her husband calls to say that he must go to Chicago on
business, Fran calls her bookie. Instead of paying him the money she
tells him to put twenty-five dollars on a horse named Chicago Flyer.

Season 3, Episode 21: Guest for Breakfast
Original Air Date: 23 February 1958
Jordon and Eve Ross are a married couple who are constantly
fighting. Their latest argument is interrupted by the sudden
appearance of a wanted murderer named Lacey. He holds them captive
all night. Lacey ends up being an effective marriage counselor.
Through the night he convinces the couple to amend their
differences. All of this is despite the fact that Lacey is wanted
for murdering his wife and her lover.

Season 3, Episode 22: The Return of the Hero
Original Air Date: 2 March 1958
Sgt. Andre is a returning veteran from the French-Algerian war. He
heads home to his estate with his crippled friend Marcel. Marcel
lost his leg saving Andre's life. Along the way Andre falls for a
beautiful girl Teresa even though he is already engaged to be
married. Marcel and a good web of lies help Andre out of his
problem.

Season 3, Episode 23: The Right Kind of House
Original Air Date: 9 March 1958
Mr. Waterbury in interested in buying a high priced house. Sadie
Grimes, the house's owner, invites Waterbury in for a drink. She
says the price is nonnegotiable. The place has strong sentimental
value for Sadie: her son was killed there over a mysterious bag that
has since never been found. She believes the bag contained money
which is hidden somewhere in the house. Waterbury says he will buy
the house despite its inflated price. Sadie accuses him of being her
son's murderer. Waterbury confesses that he is the murderer, but he
slumps over dead. His drink had been poisoned.

Season 3, Episode 24: The Foghorn
Original Air Date: 16 March 1958
Lucia meets and falls in love with a man named Allen Bliss at a
party that is a celebration of her engagement to another man; John
St. Rogers. She decides to break the engagement. She later discovers
that Allen is already married. The lovers decide to go for a ride in
a sailboat to discuss their plans. They are subsequently lost in the
fog and are never seen again.

Season 3, Episode 25: Flight to the East
Original Air Date: 23 March 1958
Ted Franklin is a reporter who is assigned to cover the trial of an
Arab leader accused of murder. His stories about the Arab leader's
guilt win him international acclaim. When his stories begin to
stress the Arab's innocence he loses his prestige. When the Arab is
found guilty and executed, Frank is fired and humiliated. Later,
Franklin's past is revealed: he killed a German general and stole a
number of war souvenirs. Franklin finds himself in the news again,
but this time he is on the receiving end.

Season 3, Episode 26: Bull in a China Shop
Original Air Date: 30 March 1958
A handsome homicide detective is befriended by four old ladies who
invite him for tea and proceed to play out a variation of Arsenic
and Old Lace for his benefit.

Season 3, Episode 27: Disappearing Trick
Original Air Date: 6 April 1958
A bookie asks womanizing tennis player Walter, who's short on cash,
to look up an inactive, high-rolling client. Walter discovers the
old gambler died when his sailboat sunk, leaving his beautiful young
widow with little money. Sparks fly between Walter and the widow,
when he finds out the gambler (Raymond Bailey, The Beverly
Hillbillies' banker) placed bets 3 months after the accident.

Season 3, Episode 28: Lamb to the Slaughter
Original Air Date: 13 April 1958
When Mary Maloney's police chief husband is found murdered, the
police investigate and have a hard time trying to find the murder
weapon.

Season 3, Episode 29: Fatal Figures
Original Air Date: 20 April 1958
Harold Goames comes across a book of crime statistics and learns
that the most select class of criminals in the country is made up of
murderers. He immediately decides to join that class and murders his
sister Margaret. His dream of joining the class of murders does not
come true because police mistakenly rule that the sister died of
natural causes.

Season 3, Episode 30: Death Sentence
Original Air Date: 27 April 1958
Paula Frayne's husband Norman is a chronic worrier who shows her
little attention. When an old friend of Norman's shows up and shows
too much interest in Paula, Norman becomes difficult. Paula becomes
convinced that Norman no longer loves her and moves out of the
house. She was wrong, however. Norman really loves her and threatens
murder to prove it.

Season 3, Episode 31: The Festive Season
Original Air Date: 4 May 1958
Charlie Boerum has been carrying on a long standing feud with his
sister Celia because he believes that she killed his wife. When the
family lawyer shows up on Christmas Eve to make an attempt to
reconcile the two, he discovers that they are still squabbling. He
also discovers that they are also planning each other's murder.

Season 3, Episode 32: Listen, Listen!
Original Air Date: 11 May 1958
No one will listen to a mild-mannered man's theory about a string of
local murders.

Season 3, Episode 33: Post Mortem
Original Air Date: 18 May 1958
Steve and Judy Archer are having money problems. When Judy's first
husband Harry died of a heart attack, Judy collected on a large
insurance police Steve sold him. Judy and Steve were then married
and Steve quit his job, but later squandered most of Judy's money.
The couple discovers that Harry bought a winning Sweepstakes ticket.
Unfortunately, the winning ticket is in his pocket and he is buried
six feet under. Judy wants to dig up the corpse, but Steve doesn't.
Judy gets help from a reporter who digs up the body and finds the
ticket. Later the reporter reveals himself as an insurance
detective. He believes Harry was murdered, possibly by Steve. Later
while Judy is in the bath, Steve returns and takes the winning
ticket. He throws an electric heater in the bathtub. Judy screams
and Steve runs, right into the arms of the waiting police. Judy
emerges from the bathroom unharmed. The detective removed the fuse
so she was not electrocuted. As Steve is led away by the police,
Judy takes the winning ticket from him.

Season 3, Episode 34: The Crocodile Case
Original Air Date: 25 May 1958
Jack Lyons is interrogated by the police. He accidentally reveals
himself as a murderer when he identifies a crocodile dressing case
and the initials engraved on it. Since the initials were engraved on
it shortly before the murder and fell off during the murder, only
the killer and victim could have known about them. Jack is promptly
arrested.

Season 3, Episode 35: Dip in the Pool
Original Air Date: 1 June 1958
William Botibol is a compulsive gambler. While on a cruise he enters
a betting pool to guess the number of miles the ship will travel in
the course of twenty four hours. William gains some inside
information when he learns that the ships is going to slow down to
avoid an upcoming storm. Unfortunately the storm passes and the ship
continues to speed on its course. He decides to force the ship to
slow down by throwing himself overboard. He figures that when word
gets out of someone going overboard the ship will slow down to get
him. He picks out a witness and jumps overboard. The witness doesn't
say a word. She's mentally ill and does not alert anyone to Williams
plight.

Season 3, Episode 36: The Safe Place
Original Air Date: 8 June 1958
George Piper is a bank teller and gambler. One day, a gambler named
Victor arrives at the bank and makes a large withdrawal. Later,
George visits Victor and kills him. He takes Victor's money and
hides it in a secret place in his teller's cash drawer at the bank.
The police question George, but clear him of any wrongdoing.
George's boss, however, fires him. He demands the key to the crash
drawer where George hid the money in order to give it to George's
replacement.

Season 3, Episode 37: The Canary Sedan
Original Air Date: 15 June 1958
Laura Bowlby is a psychic who wants to visit her husband in Hong
Kong. She is picked up by a chauffeur in a black sedan. Laura Bowlby
says she does not like the color and would prefer a canary yellow
one instead. This remark shocks the driver since the car was once
canary yellow before a recent paint job. Inside the car, Laura
begins to hear a woman's voice. The voice tells Laura about a
passionate affair. Laura longs for such passion in her life because
her husband James is quite unromantic and cold. After some research,
Laura find the grave of the woman who has been talking to her. She
looks at the gravestone and is unpleasantly surprised to see the
initials of the dead woman and the initials of her own husband,
James.

Season 3, Episode 38: The Impromptu Murder
Original Air Date: 22 June 1958
A woman who once accused Henry Dow of a crime enters the town and he
invites her to stay with him and his sister. She tells Henry that
she is carrying a large amount of money since she is planning an
investment. Henry kills her for the money and dumps her body into
the river. Henry then attends a dedication ceremony held on a bridge
overlooking the river. When a body floats by, Henry is asked to
identify it as the missing Miss Wilkinson. Without really looking at
the body, he says it isn't her. A police detective asks Henry's
sister to identify the body. Before she can have a look Henry
confesses to the murder. Unfortunately for him, the body wasn't Miss
Wilkinson's at all. It was someone else.

Season 3, Episode 39: Little White Frock
Original Air Date: 29 June 1958
Colin Brackner is an elderly actor who invites a playwright Adam
Longsworth and his wife over to dinner. During dinner Colin talks
about a long lost love. The tale deeply effects both Adam and his
wife practically reducing them to tears. Colin reveals that the tale
is a deception. Recognizing the talent needed to pull off such a
deception, Adam invites Colin to be part of his new production.